curriculum vitae

Education

2016
AWARD School - Top Student of 2016

2011 – 2013
University of South Australia
Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication)

2010
South Australian Certificate of Education
Saint Aloysius College

 

Skills
Idea Generation
Concept Development
Concept Design
Art Direction
Copywriting
Film Creative Oversight
Photography Creative Oversight

 

Referees

Available upon request.

Awards and Personal Achievements

2024
Complete three months of Language school in Italy.
Florence - Scuola Leonardo Da Vinci
Viareggio - Centro Culturale Giacomo Puccini

2023
Winner of a D&AD Wood Pencil: Spatial Design / Exhibitions and trade shows for RIGG Design Prize What Makes You Bleed - contributor

2022
Winner of the NGV’s RIGG Design Prize What Makes You Bleed - contributor

2019
Winner of the internal Yoplait global awards for innovative media of Fix Your Hanger

2018
AADC Events Committee Member

2018
Published runner-up of Newscorp SA's Annual Australia Day Competition.

2017
Winner of the 2017 AdNews Mock Brief: Humanoid for Sale. 

2014 - 2016
Received creative recognition from Collage Collective Co. in partnership with Hanker Magazine for my collage works and was published their annual limited edition publications.

2014
Participant in Fourplay Exhibition presented by The Design Kids and TRACTOR, in collaborating with Parallax Studio. Creating an incomplete A1 poster to be complete by the viewer. 

2014
Typographic Artwork for HIP HOP HOORAY a 2015 charity calendar in collaboration with Ask Alice Stationary and Old School New School

2014
A design collaboration with Veronica Grow featured in Desktop Magazine #301

2009 and 2010
Recipient of the St Vincent de Paul Society Blessed Frederic Ozanam Award for social justice advocacy and action

2009
Saint Aloysius College Mercy in Action Argentina Mission. Here I help paint a community centre in the Barrios which we had spent a year raising money to build through Mercy in Action.

2010
Senior Social Justice Leader, this entailed coordinating fundraising through out the school for various charities and mercy causes. 

Employment History

Sept - Dec 2024
Freelance Art Director at AKQA
Responsibilities:

  • Working autonomously across multiple briefs on a range of clients

  • Working collaboratively at all stages of the creative process

  • Working to tight deadlines under high pressure

2021 - 2024
Art Director at Leo Burnett
Responsibilities:

  • Understand a creative brief and strategic objectives of the client

  • Giving creative solutions to business problems

  • Working collaboratively at all stages of the creative process through to production

  • Working to produce creative campaigns across multiple media channels

  • Working to tight deadlines under high pressure

  • Managing clients without internal creative oversight

  • Building relationships with clients and suppliers

2018 - 2021
Art Director at AJF Partnership
Responsibilities:

  • Understand a creative brief and strategic objectives of the client

  • Giving creative solutions to business problems

  • Working collaboratively at all stages of the creative process through to production

  • Working to produce creative campaigns across multiple media channels

  • Working to tight deadlines under high pressure

  • Building relationships with clients and suppliers

2016 - 2018
Art Director at KWP! Advertising
Responsibilities:

  • Understand a creative brief and strategic objectives of the client

  • Working collaboratively at all stages of the creative process

  • Giving creative solutions to business problems

  • Provide creative supervision over all stages of production

  • Producing creative campaign executions across TV, press, direct mail, digital, social, and outdoor

  • Working to tight deadlines under high pressure

  • Building relationships with clients and suppliers

Other Freelance Clients

2016 Blackbocks Content and Advertising
2016 Newstyle Media
2016 Them Advertising
2014 Australian Fashion Labels

Internships 

2014 and 2015
Supergraph (Melbourne)
Event Management and Graphic Design Internship
Responsibilities:

  • Designing for an existing style guide

  • Organisation of Artworks prior to and at the event

  • Coordination of volunteers at the event

  • Customer service and team work throughout

  • Working at the event in both 2014 and 2015, in charge of both financials and business administrative processes

2013
Old School the New School (Melbourne)
Graphic Design and Typography Internship
Responsibilities:

  • Conceptual development for Melbourne Now workshop at the NGV

  • Idea Generation for ‘Really Rooibos’ African Tea Packaging

  • Collaboration with Veronica to answer a brief set for Desktop Magazine 2014

  • Social media updates

 

Other

2013 – 2016
American Apparel
Backstock and Sales Keyholder at
Responsibilities:

  • Communicating effectively with customers to ensure that their needs are met

  • Managing excess backstock, processing sales transactions, fulfilling online orders, store transfers and processing new stock into the system

  • Working in a team environment to ensure all jobs are performed efficiently

2008 – 2014
Customer Service Assistant (Casual) at Target Australia Pty Ltd - Sefton Park
Responsibilities:

  • Communicating effectively with customers to ensure that their needs are met

  • Managing stock within the childrens wear, ladies wear and mens wear departments and processing sales transactions

  • Working in a team environment to ensure all jobs are performed efficiently